Simonsohn has now posted a blog response to our recent paper about the poor statistical properties of the P curve. @clintin.bsky.social and I are finishing up a less-technical paper that will serve as a response. But I wanted to address a meta-issue *around* this that may clarify some things. 1/x

I am pleased to share that "the bird study" is now accepted at Psychology and Aging! A great collaboration with visiting intern Kishen Senziani, @leabartsch.bsky.social & @edamizrak.bsky.social 😀 Check out the pre-print below and a short thread on the study design and main takeaways 🧵👇

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

wow, massive illusory motion effect here

Do you want to know how or why you should preregister your next experiment? Then sign up for our next OPAM online workshop (hosted by @carohautekiet.bsky.social on October 8th) using the link below! vu-live.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro

New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The IfaDo sessions have become really a community staple and I am very glad to be able to chip in.

1/4 I’m really excited to share that my first PhD manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 🎉! Until it becomes available, don’t forget to check out our updated preprint (with some additional insights) #JNeurosci

Tomorrow afternoon at #icon2025 I will present a poster on feature extraction costs in working memory in an audiovisual context using behavioral measures and EEG based decoding analysis. I will be at the main hall, 1st floor (P2.55). I’d be happy to discuss our results further with you.

Congrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚‍♀️

The next installment (October 8th) of our OPAM Training Workshop series will feature Dr Caro Hautekiet (of Vrije Universiteit), who will be discussing pre-registration and registered reports. Visit this page for info on all our (free!) workshops: www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...

Make sure you register for this year's OPAM and join us to hear what will definitely be a great talk from Dr. Joy Geng on her research and stories from her career!

Yes, this was a really great experience! Thanks for @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @vmloaiza1.bsky.social for asking us to do this as part of #ESCOP2025! And if you are interested in having a similar workshop for your PhD Programm or similar, feel free to reach out!

Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229 Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)

Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory

Presenting my talk at #ESCOP2025 today at 4pm in the symposium "Cognitive Mastery in Play: From Board to Digital Games as Models of Expertise" in LT2 🎮🎲 Hope you see you there!

Here is the paper that @mollyadelooze.bsky.social presented this morning at #escop2025 showing source amnesia for recently presented verbal information.

Excited to share our preprint for my first project with Zane (Dr. Weizhen Xie, University of Maryland)! :) We found that semantic associations across real-world objects promotes VWM performance, but only when the encoding time was brief (0.2s). Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/2

Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.

Another highly cited classic finding fails to replicate

Our PhD student Ekaterina Andriushchenko presents her poster "Beyond the Noise: The Complex Interplay of Past and Present Uncertainty in Serial Dependence" in afternoon poster session at #ECVP2025 today. Stop by if you are around and interested in serial biases and noise!

08:40 am Maria V. Servetnik 09:00 am Thomas Christophel 09:20 am Representational formats to encode context and priority in visual working memory Brad Postle | University of Wisconsin–Madison | United States 09:40 am Clayton Curtis | New York University | United States

We are HIRING! The Department of Psychology at NDSU is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology (broadly defined) to begin August, 2026. Full details here: tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn Questions can be directed to me. Please share widely!

And while you are doing all that you can find Rosanne's and my students allover ECVP doing all the cool stuff ...

Check out our contributions at #ECVP Monday–August 25: 10:00–11:30 a.m. Poster Task status of items determines repulsive and attractive serial dependence in working memory Saskia Fohs 3:00 p.m. Talk Neuronal correlates of storing feature-feature bindings in working memory Anna Zier

👀 IVL Monday ECVP 👀 10 AM Poster: Foraging for Biological Motion 11:30 AM Talk: Development & Aging I RW 1: The Development of High-Level Vision 4 PM Poster: The Role of Priming and Distractor Suppression in Ensemble Perception #visionscience #ecvp2025 #ecvp @ecvp.bsky.social

New pre-print w/ @keisukefukuda.bsky.social ! In this study, we show that memory biases selectively persist across time following perceptual comparisons, but not passive interference, even when observers abstain from making explicit memory reports. osf.io/preprints/ps... doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I'll be presenting a poster at ESCoP next week! I have some interesting results on the relationship between binding and fluid intelligence! Come to poster 65 on Thursday to see it!

Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc: Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen Chair, Rosanne Rademaker

UNLV's MRI facility is close to completion and we are now searching for an MRI Technologist. Please help me spread the word! nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNLV-E... #neuroimaging #MRI #neuroscience #psychology

Hi everyone, I have recently joint the @uni-magdeburg.de and the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology #teamLIN. The LIN is hosting the XV #learning & #memory Conference (28.09-02.10). Looking at #memory & 😴 sleep 🧠 #hippocampus 👂 auditory #learning ... Information & Registration: lnkd.in/d-Q6J8JV

New preprint alert! 🤩 Together with Klaus Oberauer, I wrote a review article on how focused attention in #workingmemory affects long-term memory formation. osf.io/preprints/os...

Excited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Imagine this at scale, unchecked: how is this not a fundamental threat to science? (Also, this is a perfect example of how irrational and ironic it is for large publishing companies to use “AI” to generate content that is of a much lower quality than the human-created content they already own.)

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

🚨 New paper with @leabartsch.bsky.social and Agnes Rosner! Our results show that location information is similarly reactivated for rehearsal and visual imagery. #workingmemory #eyetracking Out now in @jcgntn.bsky.social Read more: journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨

This is just perfect www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...

EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory Jiangang Shan and Bradley R. Postle Journal of Neuroscience 9 July 2025, 45 (28) e2414242025; doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

After a bit of interest on my upcoming talk, I've tentatively started a newsletter/blog on Substack! If you're interested in my thoughts on cognitive research, with a particular focus on what's in the public discourse around digital technology and attention: thecentreofattention.substack.com

Thirdly, we have not received too many applications for our professional development award so if you apply then your chances are good! We have increased our reward amount to $500 so if you submitted an OPAM abstract then consider talking to your supervisor about applying before July 31st! ⛷️🏔️🧠

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

I'm preparing a public talk on the impact of digital technology on attention, and whether there is any evidence behind 'brain rot' (and help the public understand that researchers need public funds and support to work on this issue!). #cogsci, what message would you want the public to hear on this?

Evie is a great collaborator and wonderful mentor. A great position in a great location!

The OPAM 2025 Abstract deadline has been EXTENDED! Due to demand we will now accept submissions until the end of this Friday. But if you are planning to submit we still encourage you not to wait until the alst minute! Hope to see you all in Denver!🏔️⛷️

We just published a new paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review examining what drives how people segment continuous experience into distinct memory events. The takeaway: contextual stability, not prediction error, is the main driver.🧵https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02723-4

New #counter-strike available to participate in 🎮 Complete a 40-minute online cognitive task and questionnaire, and receive a £5 Amazon Voucher and be entered into a prize draw! 💸Read more and take part here 👉 coglab.xyz/publix/05ado... @cvonbastian.bsky.social @philippmusfeld.bsky.social #CS2

New paper alert🚀 Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation. link.springer.com/article/10.3...